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The project physics course reader. unit 2, Motions in the heaves.

By: Holton, Gerald James.
Contributor(s): Ruthford, F. James (Floyd James), 1924- | Watson, Fletcher G. (Fletcher Guard).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York: Holt, Rinehart And Winston, 1970Description: vii, 216 p. ; 20 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0030845599.Subject(s): Physics -- Study and teaching (Secondary) | AstronomyDDC classification: 520
Contents:
Opening scenes -- Roll call -- A night at the observatory -- Preface to the revolutionibus -- The starry messenger -- Kepler's celestial music -- Kepler -- Kepler on Mars -- Newton and the Principia -- The laws of motion, and proposition one -- The garden of Epicurus -- Universal gravitation -- An appreciation of the earth -- Mariners 6 and 7 television pictures: preliminary analysis -- The boy who redeemed his father's name -- The great comet of 1965 -- Gravity experiments -- Space the unconquerable -- Is there intelligent life beyond the earth? -- The stars within twenty-two light years that could have habitable planets -- Scientific study of unidentified flying objects -- The life-story of a galaxy -- Expansion of the universe -- Negative mass -- Four poetic fragments about astronomy -- The Dyson sphere.

Opening scenes -- Roll call -- A night at the observatory -- Preface to the revolutionibus -- The starry messenger -- Kepler's celestial music -- Kepler -- Kepler on Mars -- Newton and the Principia -- The laws of motion, and proposition one -- The garden of Epicurus -- Universal gravitation -- An appreciation of the earth -- Mariners 6 and 7 television pictures: preliminary analysis -- The boy who redeemed his father's name -- The great comet of 1965 -- Gravity experiments -- Space the unconquerable -- Is there intelligent life beyond the earth? -- The stars within twenty-two light years that could have habitable planets -- Scientific study of unidentified flying objects -- The life-story of a galaxy -- Expansion of the universe -- Negative mass -- Four poetic fragments about astronomy -- The Dyson sphere.

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